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List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness

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Civilian ships

Name Class Built For Laid down Launched Fate Image
17 de Octobre [1] Passenger Cargo Ship   Argentine Government 1949 4 April 1950
Accra [2] Passenger Cargo Ship   Elder Dempster Late 1945 24 February 1947
Apapa [3] Passenger Cargo Ship   Elder Dempster December 1945 1948
Affonso Penna [4] Floating dock   Brazilian Government 1909 7,8 & 9 June 1910
Anglia [5] Cable Ship   Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company Late 1890s 20 June 1898
Awatea [6] Passenger liner   Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 1935 1936 Attacked near Bougie, by German bombers and sank during the night (1942)
HMS Ben-my-Chree Passenger Ferry /
Seaplane carrier		   Isle of Man Steam Packet 1907 23 March 1908 Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire  
British Admiral [7] Oil tanker   BP 1963
British Adventure [8] Oil tanker   BP 1949 12 December 1950
British Ambassador [9] Oil tanker   BP July 1957 16 August 1958
British Faith [10] Oil tanker   BP 1956 10 December 1957
British Glory [11] Oil tanker   BP 3 April 1956 1957
British Grenadier [12] Oil tanker   BP August 1961 16 August 1962
British Prestige [13] Oil tanker   BP 23 October 1958 28 July 1961
British Sovereign [14] Oil tanker   BP 27 March 1953 31 August 1954
British Victory [15] Oil tanker   BP August 1953 1955
Carl Schmedeman [16] Cargo ship   Tropical Steamship Company, Toronto 1 June 1951 12 May 1952
Duke of Connaught [17] Floating dock   Canadian Vickers, Montreal 1912 1912
Esso Canterbury [18] Oil tanker       Esso 30 May 1952 24 September 1953
Esso Westminster [19] Oil tanker       Esso 29 February 1952 24 September 1953
Estrella Patagonica /
Voluta /
San Casimiro [20]		 Oil tanker   Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA 1962 Scrapped Bombay in 1989
Eugenia Niarchos [21] Oil tanker   Niarchos Group (Neptune Tanker Corporation) May 1955 1956
Eva Peron [22] Passenger Cargo Ship   Argentine Government 1 December 1947 25 August 1949
Presidente Peron [23] Passenger Cargo Ship   Argentine Government 3 November 1948
HMS Exmouth /
HMS Worcester [24]		 School ship   Metropolitan Asylums Board 4 April 1905 Accommodation for the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow
Ficus /
Empire Grenadier [25]		 Oil tanker   Shell Tankers U.K. 1942 Scrapped in 1960
Fenella [26] Passenger steamer   Isle of Man Steam Packet Company May 1936 1937
Geraldine Mary [27] Cargo ship  /   Anglo-Newfoundland Shipping Company 19 August 1924
HMCS Earl Grey [28] Ice breaker   Canadian Government June 1909
Hindsia [29] Oil tanker     Shell Bermuda May 1954 1955
San Gregorio /
Vitta [30]		 Oil tanker       Eagle Tanker Company July 1956 1957 Scrapped in 1975
Hinea [31] Oil tanker     Shell 1956 Scrapped in 1976
Hinnites [32] Oil tanker     Shell 1956 Scrapped in 1975
Marinula /
Santa Marcherita /
Trigonia [33]		 Oil tanker     Shell 1916 Scrapped Newport in 1951
Serenia [34] Oil tanker     Shell 1961 Scrapped in 1987
Hinemoa [35] Passenger Cargo Ship   Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 1945 30 May 1946
Hobson's Bay [36] Passenger liner   Australian Commonwealth Government Line 4 October 1921
JH Hunter Sludge vessel   London County Council 2 October 1924
Newfoundland [37] Passenger cargo ship   Warren Line 24 January 1925 Converted to Hospital ship in 1940, bombed and sunk off Salerno in 1943 with the loss of 38 lives
Nova Scotia [38] Passenger cargo ship   Warren Line 1926 Converted to troopship in 1941, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean SE of Lourenco Marques in 1942, while carrying Italian prisoners 858 lives were lost
Humilaria /
San Edmundo [39]		 Oil tanker     Shell UK/ Eagle Oil 1958 Scrapped in 1973
Kennerleya /
Empire Granite [40]		 Oil tanker   Shell UK 1941 Scrapped in 1960
Milo /
Chant 56 [41]		 Oil tanker   Nederlands Indische Tank Stoomboot Mij. (NIT) 1944 Scrapped in 1958
Methane Princess LNG carrier   British Gas Scrapped in 1998
Kedah [42] Passenger cargo ship   Straits Steamship Company, Singapore 1926 16 July 1927
Lady of Mann [43] Passenger steamer   Isle of Man Steam Packet Company 4 March 1930
Narragansett [44] Oil tanker     Anglo-American Oil Company 1919 1920
Otaio [[45]] Cargo ship   New Zealand Shipping Company 1929 26 August 1930
Monarch of Bermuda [46] Passenger liner   Furness Whithy Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne 17 March 1931
Queen of Bermuda [47] Passenger liner   Furness Whithy Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne 1 September 1932 sold for scrap in 1966
Modavia [48] Cargo ship   Donaldson Line 1925 23 September 1926 Torpedoed and sunk by E-boat in Lyme Bay in 1943
Moreton Bay [49] Cargo ship   Donaldson Line 1921
Moveria [50] Cargo ship   Donaldson Line 10 October 1924 Broken up in 1952
Rangatira [51] Passenger liner   Union Steamship Company of New Zealand 16 April 1931 Scrapped in 1967
RMS Antonia Passenger liner   Cunard Steamship Company Early 1920s 1921 Scrapped in 1948
RMS Carinthia [52] Passenger liner   Cunard Steamship Company 1924 24 February 1925 Sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1940
RMS Orama [53] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 1923 20 May 1924 Converted to troopship in 1940, sunk west of Narvik in June 1940, 19 crew were lost and 280 were taken prisoner
RMS Orcades [54] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 14 October 1947 Broken up in Kaohsiung in 1973 after being gutted by a fire in Hong Kong in 1972
RMS/HMS Orford [55] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 27 September 1927 Converted to troopship in 1939, bombed and beached at Marseilles in 1940 while evacuating troops from France, refloated and scrapped in 1947
RMS Orion [56] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 7 February 1934 Converted to troopship in 1941, damaged in collision with HMS Revenge but repaired. Scrapped in Belgium 1963
RMS Oronsay [57] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 1949 30 June 1950 Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1963, scrapped in Taiwan in 1975
Orizaba [58] Passenger liner   Pacific Steam Navigation Company 1886 Ran aground and wrecked off Sydney in 1905
Oroya [59] Passenger liner   Pacific Steam Navigation Company 31 August 1886 Ran aground in the Bay of Naples in 1895 - severley damaged but repaired - Transferred to Royal Mail Steam packet Company and scrapped in Genoa in 1909
Orotava [60] Passenger liner   Pacific Steam Navigation Company 1889 Sunk in 1896 but raised and reconditioned. Transfered to many other companies and eventually scrapped in 1919
Oruba /
Orion [61]		 Passenger liner   Pacific Steam Navigation Company Purchased by the British Admiralty in 1914 and rebuilt to represent the battleship, HMS Orion, she was scuttled at Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island, Greece as a breakwater in 1915
Ortona /
Arcadian [62]		 Passenger liner   Orient Line – Pacific Steam Navigation Company 1899 Torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean while en-route from Salonika to Alexandria with troops (as a troopship) - 279 lives were lost
Otranto [63] Passenger liner   Pacific Steam Navigation Company 9 June 1925 Scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1957
RMS Scythia Passenger liner   Cunard Steamship Company 1919 23 March 1920 Scrapped in 1958
Rebeca [64] Oil tanker   Antilles Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij 1938 Scrapped in 1954
Rosalia [65] Oil tanker   Antilles Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij 1938 Sunk in 1943
San Calisto/ Vermetus [66] Oil tanker     Eagle Oil/ Shell UK 1959 Scrapped in 1975
San Patricio/ Pecten [67] Oil tanker     Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA /
Eagle Oil		 1955 Scrapped in 1986
San Conrado/ Valvata [68] Oil tanker     Eagle Oil/ Shell UK 1960 Scrapped in 1975
SS Himalaya Steamship /
Cruise liner		       Steamship route (Tilbury - Mumbai - Australia)/ Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 5 October 1948 Broken up in 1974 in Taiwan
SS Chusan [69] Passenger liner   Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 1947 28 June 1949
SS Mayon [70] Passenger cargo ship   Philippine Steamship Company 26 June 1930
SS Orsova [71] Passenger liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 1952 14 May 1953 Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1965, scrapped in 1974
SS Kurtuluş Cargo ship   Cargo Ship (also transported food in the great famine of Greece 1883 Ran aground and Sunk near Marmara Island File:KurtuluşVapuru.jpg
SS Oriana Ocean liner   Orient Steam Navigation Company 18 September 1956 3 November 1959 Broken up for scrap 2005  
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